Satire

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" Here is the ideal introduction to satire for the student and, for the experienced scholar, an occasion to reconsider the uses, problems, and pleasures of satire in light of contemporary theory. Satire is a staple of the literary classroom. Dustin Griffin moves away from the prevailing moral-didactic approach established thirty some years ago to a more open view and reintegrates the Menippean tradition with the tradition of formal verse satire. Exploring texts from Aristophanes to the moderns, with special emphasis on the eighteenth century, Griffin uses a dozen figures -- Horace, Juvenal, Persius, Lucian, More, Rabelais, Donne, Dryden, Pope, Swift, Blake, and Byron -- as primary examples. Because satire often operates as a mode or procedure rather than as a genre, Griffin offers not a comprehensive theory but a set of critical perspectives. Some of his topics are traditional in satire criticism: the role of satire as moralist, the nature of satiric rhetoric, the impact of satire on the political order. Others are new: the problems of satire and closure, the pleasure it affords readers and writers, and the socioeconomic status of the satirist. Griffin concludes that satire is problematic, open-ended, essayistic, and ambiguous in its relationship to history, uncertain in its political effect, resistant to formal closure, more inclined to ask questions than provide answers, and ambivalent about the pleasures it offers.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Dustin H. Griffin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Release : 1994-12-15
File : 260 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0813108292


Satire And The Postcolonial Novel

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : John Clement Ball
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release : 2003
File : 234 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0415965934


Die Satire

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Author : Matthew John Caldwell Hodgart
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
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File : 264 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781412833646


Satire Tv

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A fascinating look into what happens when comedy becomes political and politics becomes comedy Satirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citizens wishing to make sense of the bizarre contemporary state of political life. Shifts in industry economics and audience tastes have re-made television comedy, once considered a wasteland of escapist humor, into what is arguably the most popular source of political critique. From fake news and pundit shows to animated sitcoms and mash-up videos, satire has become an important avenue for processing politics in informative and entertaining ways, and satire TV is now its own thriving, viable television genre. Satire TV examines what happens when comedy becomes political, and politics become funny. A series of original essays focus on a range of programs, from The Daily Show to South Park, Da Ali G Show to The Colbert Report, The Boondocks to Saturday Night Live, Lil’ Bush to Chappelle’s Show, along with Internet D.I.Y. satire and essays on British and Canadian satire. They all offer insights into what today’s class of satire tells us about the current state of politics, of television, of citizenship, all the while suggesting what satire adds to the political realm that news and documentaries cannot.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Jonathan Gray
Publisher : NYU Press
Release : 2009-04-01
File : 299 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780814732168


Humor Satire And Identity

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Explores the Eastern German literary trend of the 1990s employing humor and satire to come to terms with socialism's failure and a difficult unification process. This title surveys ten novels including, works by Brussig, Schulze, and Hensel. These contemporary texts help define Germany today from a specific, East German perspective.

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Genre : Humor
Author : Jill E. Twark
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Release : 2007
File : 486 Pages
ISBN-13 : 3110195992


African American Satire

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"Satire's real purpose as a literary genre is to criticize through humor, irony, caricature, and parody, and ultimately to defy the status quo. In African American Satire, Darryl Dickson-Carr provides the first book-length study of African-American satire and the vital role it has played. In the process he investigates African American literature, American literature, and the history of satire." --Book Jacket.

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Genre : Humor
Author : Darryl Dickson-Carr
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Release : 2001
File : 244 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780826263742


Studies In Classical Satire And Related Literary Theory

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Genre : Classical literature
Author : C. A. Van Rooy
Publisher : Brill Archive
Release : 1965
File : 246 Pages
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Techniques Of Satire

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Emil Draitser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Release : 1994
File : 248 Pages
ISBN-13 : 3110126249


Socratic Satire

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Stephen Werner
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
Release : 1987
File : 132 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0917786599


Latin Satire

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Genre : Satire, Latin
Author : Charles Witke
Publisher : Brill Archive
Release : 1970
File : 296 Pages
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